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the lower branch one, the greater part of the stem dark scaled 
up to the cross-veins and another dark patch just past them ; the 
fifth is nearly all pale scaled, except for two dark spots on the 
upper branch and one on the lower ; the sixth has three dark 
_ spots ; wing fringe with a pale spot at the junction of each vein 
with the border, that at the apex of the sixth the largest ; the basal 
fringe area appears rather paler in some lights; apex of the 
wing yellow except where the lower branch of the first fork-cell 
joins the costa ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than 
the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, 
its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell; stem of the 
second posterior longer than the cell; mid cross-vein nearly 
uniting with the supernumerary, the posterior a little way 
behind. Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length.—2°5 mm. 
~g. Palpi thin, last two joints — swollen, brown, last 
two apical joints with many pale scales, especially on their 
ventral surface, hairs golden ; antennae banded brown and grey, 
with flaxen brown plumes; fore ungues very unequal, the large 
one uniserrated. alga 
Wings with anterior border as in the 9; the greater part of 
first fork-cell dark scaled, its base pale, a dark patch on the 
stem as in the 9; the third long vein has also a dark patch at 
the base ; second fork-cell with a large dark patch on the upper 
branch, a small one below, the iouinder mostly dark scaled, 
except at the cross-veins ; fifth with two dark spots on the upper 
branch, one at the base of the cell and another at its root. Sixth 
mostly dark scaled, with a pale area in the middle and one near 
the root. 
Length.—2°5 mm. 
Time of capture.—May. 
Habitat.—Malay States (Dr. Durham). 
Observations.—Described from two perfect specimens, but the 
male has shrunken palpi. One of the smallest species I know, 
and easily told by the apical part of the proboscis being pale. 
This. is not, however, so clear in the ¢ as in the ?, but the 
pale scaled area is broader in the g than in the ?, up to quite 
half the length of the proboscis. It might, on account of the 
banded proboscis, be confused with Dénitz’s N. deceptor (p. 105), 
but the wings are quite different, and so are the palpal bands. 
